Let this music relax your mind.
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Dionne Warwick on a rooftop in Paris in 1964 with some very dodgy looking dudes.
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Love quite a lot of Dylan songs.
I would not have seen (if I had a choice) him live.
Some artists don’t lend themselves well to a live concert.
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Can’t say Jazz is really my thing , but some tracks just blow you away. This is one of them. (The lyrics are mind-blowing too. 
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First album I would take to an island if marooned.
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For the friends and their families going through difficult times.
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I’ve just been listening to Ian McNabb’s latest album, Fleetwood McNabb. I’d totally forgotten that I’d ordered this months ago (probably late at night, whilst pissed) and the CD arrived this morning.
As the title suggests, it’s an album of Fleetwood Mac covers drawn right across their career and performed in his own style. As projects like this go, it’s pretty good. He seems to totally get the music and has chosen things that he can adapt to his own voice and playing.
There were a few tracks that I would have liked him to do (such as Oh Well and The Chain) that aren’t on there but the rest of it is spot on. His version of “Green Manalishi” is seriously heavy - not like the Judas Priest version, which was Heavy Metal, but amped up and doomed out with the kind of existential dread that Peter Green must have been going though at the time he wrote it.
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“We don’t need to escalate
War is not the answer
Only love can conquer hate”
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Ate at a boss new soul food joint in Napa last week and they had a cool mural of Marvin on the back wall. And, of course, they played What’s Going On with its forever message.
Perfect post for these times.
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A twist on a classic for a lazy Sunday morning:
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At Eventim Apollo (Hammersmith) right now, just saw In Flames, who sounded better than they have in years!
Waiting for Arch Enemy now.
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No wonder, they have Chris Broderick now!
Enjoy the show, mate!
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Sad news this one - Listened to many an hour from his shows
Terminally ill BBC DJ Johnnie Walker to retire
Story by Timothy Sigsworth
Johnnie Walker, the BBC Radio 2 DJ, has announced his retirement from radio, saying his terminal illness meant he could not maintain “professional standards”.
Walker, 79, told listeners to his Sounds Of The 70s programme on Sunday that he would be giving up work later this month because of his pulmonary fibrosis.
The veteran presenter said he was finding it “more and more difficult” to maintain “a professional standard suitable for Radio 2”.
In June, he revealed that his condition, which causes the lungs to become scarred and makes breathing increasingly difficult, was terminal.
He said doctors had told him he should “prepare to die at any moment” as it was getting “progressively worse”.
He added that he would “probably die a lot sooner” without his radio shows, which he presents from home.
Johnnie Walker in his early days on Radio 1 in 1971
Walker, who also hosts The Rock Show on the station, told listeners on Sunday that he had a “very sad announcement” to make.
“The struggles I’ve had with doing the show and trying to sort of keep up a professional standard suitable for Radio 2 has been getting more and more difficult, hence my little jokes about Puffing Billy,” he said.
“So I’ve had to make the decision that I need to bring my career to an end after 58 years.
“And so I’ll be doing my last Sounds Of The 70s on Oct 27, so I’ll make the last three shows as good as I possibly can.”
The Birmingham-born presenter will be succeeded as host of the programme by Bob Harris, the former presenter of BBC 2’s Old Grey Whistle Test, from Nov 3.
Harris, 78, who also presents The Country Show on Radio 2, said: “I am proud and honoured to be taking over a BBC Radio 2 institution from a true broadcasting great.
“Johnnie and I have been friends since my years presenting Old Grey Whistle Test and the original Sounds Of The 70s, and I will do everything I can to maintain his legacy and curate the programme with the very best music from that incredible decade.”
The Rock Show’s new presenter will be Shaun Keaveny, 52, the former breakfast show presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music, who is taking over on Nov 1.
Walker began his radio career in 1966 on Swinging Radio England, an offshore pirate station, before moving to Radio Caroline, becoming a household name by hosting its night-time show.
When the station closed, he joined BBC Radio 1 in 1969, continuing until 1976, when he moved to San Francisco to record a weekly show which was broadcast on Radio Luxembourg.
He returned to the BBC in the early 1980s.
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@Nikola i don’t know why Chis is hanging around with In Flames, he could play this stuff in his sleep! Squandering his amazing talent. I guess the pay check must be good and the In Flames lads are a good bunch.
Arch Enemy would be more his speed. Mike Amott absolutely slays! And whenever they got to replace Jeff Loomis is fucking amazing!!
Yeah Arch Enemy topped In Flames! Just blew the doors and windows off the place!! What a show!!
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Went to see the German metal powerhouse that is Rage last night, and that for the first time. So happy about it, even it hurts me that a band with such a charismatic mastermind and prolific output is mainly playing smaller venues after forty years of career. It’s been exactly twenty years since I first heard them, so it was kind of a big deal for me. I wish more of “my” bands would come and put on a show like that.
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Two songs from Scott Walker found on the last Walker Brothers’ album and signalling the beginning of his journey into the avant garde , and both dealing with the subject of torture.
The first , The Electrician , allegedly inspired by Sir Laurence Olivier’s depiction of a torturer , with a nice line in dentistry , from the film The Marathon Man with co-star Dustin Hoffman.
The second , Nite Flights , reputedly about the Argentinan junta’s fondness for throwing people from aeroplanes , and made famous by David Bowie , who covered it.
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And they get bonus points for winding up the bible-bashers.
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Continuing our cheery little theme , a tour de force here from Lou Reed ;
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